Democrats running for president who have signed on to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” are taking their own political lives into their hands. Pat Buchanan calls the Green New Deal “the longest suicide note in history.” He writes at The American Conservative (abridged): After reading an especially radical platform agreed upon by the British Labor […]
“Sandy” aka AOC – Republicans Secret 2020 Weapon?
“Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is, at 16 syllables, a mouthful,” writes Kevin Williams in NRO. The day before yesterday, she was “Sandy,” a pleasant-seeming young woman who liked to dance, worked in a bar, worried about her family, and chafed that her advantages and elite education left her struggling, obscure, and unsatisfied. (Boston University shares Case […]
Why the Press and Political Class Hate Successful People
Howard Schultz, ex Starbucks CEO, has a charisma problem. More like a damp washcloth is the way Karl Notturno in American Greatness puts it. But as Mr. Notturno points out, Schultz says things. Real things that will resonate with voters. And who knows, the man whose net worth is about $3 billion, might improve upon […]
Has Anyone Asked About Democrats’ Plans to Grow the Economy?
The Democrat presidential primary race is shaping up to be a competition about which candidate makes the better case for confiscatory wealth taxation. By that measure, Elizabeth Warren has taken an early lead with a planned wealth tax that would take $2.7 trillion over ten years from Americans who had earned it, paid taxes on […]
The Dreamers – the Biggest Unclaimed Political Prize
It happens every year: the President, of whichever party, emphasizes his accomplishments while somehow not mentioning his defeats. The opposing party remains seated in sullen disenchantment, as members of the President’s party stand and applaud at every pious claptrap, writes Joseph Epstein in the WSJ. The only item of possible interest in recent years has […]
CEO Howard Schultz Clueless in Coffee Land
The Democratic party has moved so far left that even the progressive former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is too conservative for its voters. Schultz has long teased a potential run for president as a Democrat, but looking at the radical ideas coming from the likes of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren, Schultz is now considering […]
Could Chris Christie Challenge Trump in 2020? “Never say never,” He Says
When asked recently if he could run for president, Chris Christie told an audience, “Never say never.” Christie is on tour promoting his new book, Let Me Finish. Some of the book excerpts are critical of the Trump administration, where Christie worked for a time leading the transition team. At Fox News, Lukas Mikelionis reports: […]
Pow Wow Chow and Elizabeth Warren
Originally posted on October 16, 2018. The Boston Globe’s Ms. Linskey on Senator Elizabeth Warren’s various racial claims: In 1984, Warren contributed five recipes to a Native American cookbook entitled “Pow Wow Chow: A Collection of Recipes From Families of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole.” Her name is listed as […]
Biden/Pelosi Raised in a Catholic Church
Democrats looking for an easy win in 2020 against President Trump must remember some of the hard facts about their own party. As Pat Buchanan explains at The American Conservative, it’s no longer the party of JFK. Pat lists some of the more outrageous ambitions of the Party’s younger generation, and details the hypocrisy of […]
Will Nancy Pelosi Get Donald Trump Reelected?
Yesterday, Democrats officially returned Nancy Pelosi to the position of Speaker of the House. Pelosi is gaffe-prone, and disliked by the vast majority of Americans. Having Pelosi as a foil could be just what Donald Trump needs to win in 2020. When Americans see the election as a choice between the pro-economic growth model offered […]